> In any case, people used CM (which is thin) happily for many years on > 300 dpi printers. Another example: they may have been "happy" because they had (and for many of them) never seen anything so exquisite before. But for CM, it was (and maybe still is but I have now no way to find out) not feasible to produce anything at 300dpi about which they "should have remain happy" when 600+dpi is available. The wonderful irony about this is that if you look through modes.mf you will find, especially in the comments on ~1200dpi modes, things like. I tried .... but this looked a bit thin so I chnaged to ... ; now it looks as good as the 300dpi output. We like what we know! chris